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OpenAI claims its new general-purpose reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved geometry conjecture first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946, marking what the company says is the f…
A study published in the *Journal of Affective Disorders* found that individuals with a high fear of missing out (FoMO) exhibit heightened neural sensitivity to positive social feedback, such as digital thumbs-up icons. …
Mycorrhizal fungi form a symbiotic relationship with over 90% of terrestrial plants, extending root systems by 10 to 1,000 times to improve water and nutrient absorption while protecting against drought, disease, and poo…
Helen Sharman became the first British person in space in 1991 after responding to a radio advertisement that simply said, "Astronaut wanted. No experience necessary." Selected from 13,000 applicants, the 27-year-old foo…
In August 1955, the United States traded Chinese scientist Qian Xuesen, a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and key figure in U.S. airpower doctrine, for eleven American airmen imprisoned in China. The trade wa…
Boston Metal, a startup originally known for developing technology to decarbonize steel production, has raised $75 million to pivot its focus toward producing critical metals like niobium, tantalum, and nickel. The compa…
The article, published in 2025, explains that neutron scattering experiments have revealed why gluten-free pasta often disintegrates during cooking. The research shows that without gluten, the starch and protein molecule…
A new high-resolution digital map of Roman roads reveals that the empire's network spanned approximately 300,000 kilometers in the second century C.E., nearly double the previously known total length. However, researcher…
From May 20, 2026, a striking alignment of the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter will be visible to the naked eye in the western/southwestern sky after dusk. This celestial event, which illustrates the plane of the solar system k…
Colossal Biosciences has announced the development of a "fully artificial egg" using 3D-printed plastic cups to grow chickens, aiming to eventually resurrect extinct birds like the dodo and giant moa, though some scienti…
The hoof relies on a mechanical pumping mechanism, not muscles, to return venous blood to the heart, as there are no muscles in the lower leg. When the horse bears weight, the plantar cushion and coffin bone compress a n…
The horse's hoof relies on a "pumping mechanism" to return venous blood to the heart, as there are no muscles in the lower leg to perform this function. When the hoof bears weight, the plantar cushion and coffin bone com…
Most modern theoretical physics, particularly in areas like string theory and supersymmetry, is actually engineering because practitioners design models based on internal mathematical consistency or aesthetics rather tha…
VaultForge, an open-source AI agent that transforms PDFs or Markdown files into structured Obsidian vaults by applying cognitive science principles like active retrieval and the Zettelkasten method. It addresses the lear…
Researchers developed a national inventory of 319,972 solar photovoltaic facilities and 91,609 wind turbines in China using satellite imagery and deep learning to assess solar-wind complementarity. The study found that p…
A lightweight (0.96 kg) portable robot was developed to provide isokinetic resistance training for juveniles with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) type II, integrating a variable stiffness mechanism for safe, customizable r…
Large-scale neural activity in mice, except in the hippocampal area CA1, exhibits dynamics similar to those of a linear system governed by a critically normalized random symmetric matrix. This critical initialization pro…
Researchers identified a neural population in the ventral premotor cortex of macaque monkeys that encodes "action symbols," which are discrete, recombinable representations of motor behavior. The study found that these n…
Dopamine is identified as a central regulator of long-lasting brain changes in mothers, driving persistent neural adaptations through a mechanism involving H3 dopaminylation. The study used transcriptomic profiling in mi…
Development of AI "scientists" designed to accelerate research by automating tasks like hypothesis generation and data analysis. It references recent studies showing that teams of AI agents can boost the speed of researc…